The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-04

Il W6lls IL u no secret, ana there Is nc
patent right on the method. The lane
| that is good enough to raise so bushel.
of shelled corn to the acre, if rightly
cultivated, and harvested, is good enough
to raise 25 tons, or $4,000 lbs. of stalks
and ears Of Southern Sweet. or Ensilage
corn, if planted according to directions
sent with the seed, as sold by Cornish,
Curtis & Greene of this city. The 80, 900
lbs. will shrink in the silo about 10 per
cent in weight, leaving As, 900 lbs. Six
ty pounds per day IS ample food for a
COW, so it would last one COW $50 DAYS.
which is 20 days more than two years.
The ten or twelve pounds of bran and
oat meal mixture she ought to have, per
day, in reality don't cost anything, be-
cause the cost of them is adding to the
value of the manure the COW yields.
The silo, in brief, is made substan-
tally the same as any good ice-house,
one or more of which can be found in
any village or city in the state. Make
the bottom of it water or air tight with
cement or a double floor of matched
stuf-just which is the cheapest, and
till it with the corn stalks cut 10 inch
lengths with straw cutter. The corn
should be cut when the kernels are
glazed, if ears form, as they will in most
parts of the West. Cut with a sweep
rake reaper if you have one, or by hand.
Let the corn wilt a day or so, as it loses
much weight of water thereby, and is
handled easier. Cut at the silo as drawn
from the field, and fill slowly enough so
that the contents will heat by fermenta-
ton to 125 or $50 degrees, then add
more cold silage, and keep on till room
is full, or the crop all in. Then after
two days cover with tarred paper and
boards matched so as to make an air
tight cover, and weight down with a
load or two of hay, with sawdust eight
inches deep, or with dampened clay,
Just which is handiest and cheapest. |
That is all till the feeding time comes,
which may be any time after month |
Or so. When ready to feed uncover the
whole, and feed from the top, raking up
with manure hook only that required
or a feed, leaving the rest entirely I'M
disturbed.
If the corn was matured as above,
ind wilted just little, the food will be
slightly acid, but comparatively sweet,
ind no other forage need be given still,
t farmer has it, a variety consisting
If clover, millet or straw would be paat-
sole for the cows-but they would not
Eat much, If offered to them.
This business is no longer experiment
md doubtful enterprise. 1t is solid
act, and the farmer who wants to keep
n sight of the procession should fix for
planting ensilage corn in the spring,
md build his silo in the summer so as
o have it ready by September LIST. If
'ou have not faith, get it, by getting the
old knowledge of hundreds all round
he state. If you have the faith now,
hen "pitch in" and be saved. The
lawn Of the day is in sight when the
airy farmer who takes from II to 3
ores to pasture COW and two acres
more of hay or straw to winter her, and
,eep her all the time in poorer condi-
ion than the above silo feed will keep
er will be voted sodden block-head
ret light and live easy, if you know
nough. If you have no taste for the
airy, then use the silo to feed other
took. 1t is just as good to make beef,
ogs, horses, or wool, as to make food
Or COWS. Get the big crops, and feed
lem out on the farm to some kind of
n animal, and you have entered upon
le highway that leads to highly
srtilized farm, and to independence
Il provided you have the right kind of
head on your shoulders. -Hoard's
,airyn,Gn